A shop assistant in Toronto sold a weird one Magic: The Gathering card to musician Post Malone for $2 million.
Brook Trafton – who lived his “childhood dream” when he discovered the rare card earlier this year – said goodbye to his prized collector’s item after what he thought was a standard meet and greet with Post Malone turned into an “unexpected” sale.
“I was overwhelmed with joy and emotion,” Trafton said, recalling the first time he pulled out the card, a unique discovery so important he didn’t even tell his father until the card was safely locked away in a bank.
“How can someone like me actually think something so astronomical?”
After hiring a lawyer and a public relations firm, Trafton was contacted by Post Malone representatives who said he wanted to meet with him and see the map for himself.
“As soon as he saw (the card) he said yes,” Trafton told the BBC. “I said, ‘Excuse me?! Like, what do you mean?’
“He said, ‘Yes, I’ll take this card.’ It was so magical. I’m not going to lie. I cried a little bit. I cried a lot.”
What’s so special about this particular card? Derived from Magic: The Gathering’s Lord of the Rings set, the “One Ring” card is completely one of a kind, making it one of the game’s rarest finds, especially since it was also discovered in perfect mint condition.
ICYMI, Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield has founded a new game studio alongside veteran developers of Hearthstone, World of Warcraft and Halo.
The new studio – known as Popularium – has already started work on its first title, Chaos agentsand is committed to a community-based approach to the development process, as is lover ARPG Hades.
“It solved a lot of the problems that are common in games where you have a buildable element or a strategic element…” Garfield said at the time, explaining his interest in bringing an “auto battler royale” to life.
“It showed one of the directions you could go. The gameplay is very relaxed, very broad, that is, there is no nerve in it, there is no element of speed… which often (can) limit your audience.”